![]() ![]() ![]() One year later, British writer Geoffrey Grigson uses the term biomorphism in two essays: in the short " Comment on England" (1935) he notes that "abstractions are of two kinds, geometric and biomorphic," and observes that the way forward are the biomorphic abstractions in the chapter "Painting and sculpture" in The Arts Today (1935), he describes the term biomorphic as "no bad term for the paintings of Miro, Hélion, Erni and others, to distinguish them from the modern geometric abstractions and from rigid Surrealism."Īnother year later, in 1936, New York art historian Alfred H. ![]() The term biomorph was coined in 1895 by anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon in his book Evolution in Art, in which he stated that "the biomorph is the representation of anything living in contradistinction to the skeuomorph, which is the representation of anything". ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |